Actress (UK)

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Actress' dubstep aesthetics mingle with rave breaks and micro-house attitude to conjure up a gleefully indefinable journey through one of the more tangential side roads veering off from today’s electronic music. The artist is certainly no stranger to challenging conventions. As label manager for London-based label Werk Discs, he’s played a pivotal part in bringing to light critically acclaimed albums by Zomby and Lukid. Actress’ own debut album, the tragically under-rated “Hazyville”, is equally bold and engaging, but apart from three more singles across a seven-year stretch, including “Paint, Straw, and Bubbles” on the mighty Honest Jon’s label, Actress has most flown under the radar.

http://www.werkrecords.blogspot.com/

Andy Stott (UK)

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Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the 'Replace EP' - a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic code at its core. In the years since he has released over a dozen EP's and an album under his own name, as well as several productions under the Andrea moniker for Modern Love's 'Daphne' sublabel. Refusing to settle, his output has veered from deepest Techno to broken Garage, slowed down House and hyperactive Juke - always referencing his unique stylistic signatures: deep, complex and oddly beautiful. 2011 saw the release of 'Passed Me By', a mini-album of sorts shifting his sound into ever more frayed territory, slowing the tempos down for a set of tracks that have garnered the highest praise of his career to date. Later on in the year a companion EP of tracks will be released as well as a compendium of his most recent material.

http://soundcloud.com/modernlove/sets/andy-stott-passed-me-by

Chromatic Wildlife (SE)

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Ola Lindefelt is a Malmö-based musician and sound artist currently collaborating with Martha Colburn, Pär Thörn, Lief Hall as well as in various band constellations (Fredrik, Argonaut, Eter, Spinus, The Invisibles). His november 25th 10-inch release "Chromatic Wildlife" features mutating improvised cello textures via custom electronics and a japanese 8-bit sampler. The music is amalgamated with analog visuals on 8/16mm film by american cinematographer and film stock alchemist Caleb Smith.

Cindytalk (UK)

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Reincarnated as a vehicle for Gordon Sharp’s solo productions, legendary post-punk project Cindytalk returned to Editions Mego for a third album last year. "Hold Everything Dear" gracefully tackles intensity levels that range from fragile piano elegies to harmonious drone cascades on 12 inspired instrumentals.

Gordon Sharp formed Cindytalk in 1982 and has since then been the only constant member of this ever shift shaping punk, noise, experimental group. Sharp's contribution to popular culture is already the stuff of legend, praised by John Peel session and The Cocteau Twins to name a few.

http://www.cindytalk.com/

Clemens Behr (DE)

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German artist Clemens Behr uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans...

http://www.clemensbehr.com/

Crank Sturgeon (US)

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Crank Sturgeon has been active in performance, installation, and sound art since the early 1990's. A comical conceptualist, Crank is something of a misnomer: whether blending pun with the profane, or transforming the precious into an oil spill, a Sturgeon performance defies categorization. Accompanied by ridiculous costuming, pointed instructions and parables (gone awry), and even the occasional dirigible or two, these elements intertwine into space-defying interventions, which invariably involve a degree of audience participation. More than just possessing a predilection for the absurd, Crank wears the goggles of the perpetual optimist: infusing his processes with a classical struggle, and yet always with a leery salmon grin; awash in an undertow of delicious and celebratory noise...

An indefatigable nomad, Crank Sturgeon frequently tours his one-man show to independent galleries, venues, and DIY spaces across the USA and Europe; in the past year with performances at Chautaugua Art Lab in St. Louis, Missouri; NorCal Noise Festival, in Sacramento, California; Ende Tymes Festival in Queens, New York; Frantasia Festival for Out-Music & Arts, in Livermore Falls, Maine; XFest in Lowell, Massachusetts; and the Sacred and Profane, on Peaks Island, Maine. Many of these performances have also featured an installation element as well, such as an interactive, life size cardboard airplane (for the Sacred and Profane); or in the manner a solo construct, such as, "Husopathy", a three day installation event held at the MEME Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Derek Holzer (US/DE)

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Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist based in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught noise art technology workshops across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. Holzer is currently an artist-in-residence and guest-teacher at the Danish Institute of Electro/acoustic Music, Aarhus DK.

http://macumbista.net

Ectoplasm Girls (SE)

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The soundtrack to if Kenneth Anger had made Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo. Ectoplasm Girls is sisters Tanya & Nadine Byrne from Stockholm, Sweden. Their debut album "TXN" is filled with their unique blend of light, dark, adult, infantile, visible and hidden powers. And it is available NOW with a free poster inside.

"Macabre electronics, works of mourning, attempts to wake the dead." - The Wire Magazine UK, September 2011.

"In the project we express our joint experiences with death and dreams." - Ectoplasm Girls.

Fredrik Olofsson (SE)

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Fredrik Olofsson has for years served as an apostle for SuperCollider. He have held numerous workshops around the world, are involved in developing programming language. He is a composer, performance artist, programmer, in Feb. 2009 he performed RedUniform at Skånes konstförening.

http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/

Frida Franker (SE)

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Frida Franker video work has reached acknowledgment both in Sweden and abroad. She has been studying at Konsthögskolan Valand and Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan, where also is filmed. In a single shot the film shows workers at an all-night driving range in Japan manually retrieving all the golf balls that have been hit during the day. This specific task takes exactly 58 minutes and it is accomplished at the same time, every day, seven days a week.

http://www.fridafranker.com

Hellqvist/Petrini/Bång (SE)

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Karin Hellqvist (SE)
Efter violinstudier vid musikhögskolorna i Stockholm, Berlin och Oslo tog Karin Hellqvist 2011 sin diplomexamen vid Royal College of Music i London med ett Artist Diploma in Performance.  Hon har även som stipendiat studerat för medlemmar ur Ensemble Recherche och Klangforum Wien. Som solist såväl som i ensemblerna Oslo Sinfonietta, neoN (NO), Cikada (NO) och Curious Chamber Players (SE) beställer och uruppför hon ständigt nya verk av europeiska tonsättare.

Karin har framträtt vid festivaler som Prèsences Paris, Venezia Biennale, Warsaw Autumn, för Nuovo Virtuoso Tokyo och samarbetat med bland annat Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern. Hon är stipendiat för Dobloug Foundation Norway, RWE Dea Germany och vid 45th International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt där hon 2010 erhöll ett Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreis. Under 2011 ger Karin konserter vid bland annat ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November Music Netherlands, Sound Scotland, Estonian Music Days, som Rising Star för Royal College of Music i London och för tonsättarkollektivet Company Bene, Japan.

Anna Petrini (SE)
Anna Petrini är verksam som solist och kammarmusiker, hon är väl förankrad både i nutida och tidig repertoar.  Anna har framträtt vid festivaler och konsertserier runt om i världen, bl.a på Tokyo Operan (JP), Casa da Musica (PT), World New Music Days 2009 (SE), Båstad Kammarmusikfestival, Musica Electronica Nova (PL) och Nordic Music Days 2011.  Hon har gjort radioinspelningar för svensk, holländsk, australisk och italiensk radio, samt framträtt i tysk/franska tv-kanalen Arte.
Anna har studerat vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan för Dan Laurin samt vid Conservatorium van Amsterdam för Walter van Hauwe. Med barockensemblen Trio Stravaganti vann Anna 2007 tävlingen "Ung och Lovande". Två omfattande turnéer med Svenska Rikskonserter följde efter vinsten. Under 2012 kommer Annas första solo cd (dB Production), med verk för kontrabasblockflöjt av bl.a. Fausto Romitelli, Oscar Bianchi, Dominik Karski och Malin Bång. Med franske flöjtisten Fabrice Jünger beställer hon under 2011/2012 verk för kontrabasblockflöjt, kontrabasflöjt och elektronik. En av duons första konserter äger rum på Warsaw Autumn 2012.

Malin Bång (SE)
Malin Bång utforskar rörelse och intensitet i sin musik. Hon definierar sitt musikaliska material med utgångspunkt från dess friktionspotential, och skapar ett spektrum av kontrastrika gester och strukturer som rör sig från det intimt sköra till det råa och obstinata.  Hon använder ofta ljudande objekt för att utöka den instrumentala klangvärlden och för att antyda att det inte finns en begränsning i vad som kan skapa ett konstnärligt värde.
Malin Bång samarbetar med ensembler i ett stort antal länder och är dessutom hustonsättare för Stockholms-baserade Curious Chamber Players. Några av hennes aktuella samarbeten involverar tyska ensemble recherche vid Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, belgiska Nadar vid Darmstädter Ferienkurse, franska Alpeh och deras Forum for Young Composers, Ensemble Nikel vid Donaueschinger Musiktage, samt Klangforum Wien i samband med Impuls Festival i Graz. Under 2010 erhöll hon utnämningen Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreis vid festivalen i Darmstadt och under 2012 är hon inbjuden av tyska instutitionen DAAD till det ettåriga residenset Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

http://www.karinhellqvist.com/
http://www.annapetrini.com/
http://www.malinbang.com/

Jana Winderen (NO)

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Jana Winderen is an artist educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University in Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked as an artist, curator and producer. She currently lives and works in Oslo.

Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses is brought to the surface. She is concerned with finding sound from hidden sources, like blind field recording.

Her most recent sound works include “Energy Field Installation“ and “Scuttling around in the Shallows“ for Galerie B-312 in Montréal, Canada, 2011 and The Issue Project Room, New York, 2011, “Between Dry Land”, commissioned for the installation “The Morning Line“ by Matthew Ritchie for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary which opened in Istanbul May 2010. The commission “Spawning Ground - from Coquet Head to the North Sea“ for the AV festival in Newcastle (2010), “Evaporation“ (2009) at TodaysArt festival in The Hague, Netherlands; “Sub Pelagic Voices“ (2009) for ISCM World New Music Days, Sweden, “Colonizers of the undergrowth“ (2009) at Botanic Sounds in Göteborg and “North Atlantic Drift” (2009) for JunKroom in Kyoto, Japan. Recent releases include the album “Energy Field” (2010) on Touch, “Heated: Live in Japan” (2009), on the same label, the audio cassette “The Noisiest Guys on the Planet” (2009) on Ash International (UK), the USB stick, “Ants“, the digital download “Submerged“ (2009) on Touch and the 7 inch vinyl “Surface Runoff” (2008) on Autofact (USA). She is currently working on a commission for a permanent sound installation at the Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, Norway.

http://www.janawinderen.com/

Karin Weidenholm (SE)

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Besides working as a physiotherapist specializing in neurology, Karin Weidenholm aims to explore both ambient soundscapes and sound based on experimental electronics. At Full Pull 2011 festival Karin will perform ?Sound of light?  - music for 4 light controlled oscillators.

http://soundcloud.com/karinwei

KILLL (NO)

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KILLL is a four-divided force; a blast of energy coming from four different corners of Norway's relentless music scene. Together they have one aim: to give you a concert  to remember.

Having to face up to the fact that the KILLL members already have a full plate with their main bands, KILLL concerts become exclusive events, a blossom of pent-up energy for the few to see.

KILLL kills the borders between metal, rock and electronica, and the result is not what you think. Combining electric electronic chaos with digital precision, genres melt and music emerges that one never would think of experiencing live. On the concert stage, KILLL's sonic onslaught finds an optical equivalent in the flickering stroboscope light designs programmed by Kyrrelys.

A an extensive live DVD/CD package is expected to soon hit the streets on Oslo's Fysisk Format.

http://killl.org/

Lena Bergendahl, Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford (SE)

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Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren has been working together since 2008. While studying at Kungl Konsthögskolan (KKH) they started working with video and short films and started the art project You Look Like Milk. In that work they used film and video as method to look how theemselves relate to The Other.
"Applied Theories of Expanding Minds" follow a new tribe in a Kenya that during a long time has been exploited by China but that is now independent and in a state of insurrection. The film follow the main characters actions and rituals in their mission to create an alternative to the existing society by living in it but after their own system. Through interviews and observations of rituals a fanatic grope of individuals is introduced, that have decided to live by their own beliefs and to let decoding of the changes of the earths magnetic fields run their lives.

http://www.zbrproductions.com/

Lesley Flanigan (US)

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Artist and vocalist Lesley Flanigan (New York) approaches electronic sound with a sculptural method based on materials of noise and tone. Surrounded by clusters of wires, speakers, and microphones, she choreographs the sounds of speaker feedback against her own singing voice, constructing music that embraces the transparency of process. ArtsCriticATL writes, “Flanigan’s performance comes loaded with philosophical ideas, often blurring the boundaries among music, noise, sculpture and performance art.” Amplifications, her album of music for speaker electronics and voice, was called a “snow storm of a record” by New Music Box. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals internationally, including Sonar (Barcelona), the Guggenheim Museum, the Roskilde Museet for Samtidskunst, and HBC in Berlin

http://www.lesleyflanigan.com

Mads Bech Paluszewski (DK)

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Mads Bech Paluszewski (1977) is a danish artist and independent cultural producer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Educated MA in Geography and Performance Design from Roskilde University, his interests are within the realms of urban space interventionism, sound-installation and performing with sound, circuit bending, experimental music and DJing. Since the early 2000’s he has worked as artist, musician, composer, sound technician, cultural producer, workshopfacilitator and government consultant.

http://www.obernkarbi.dk

Mariel Roberts (US)

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New York-based cellist Mariel Roberts is quickly gaining recognition as a deeply dedicated interpreter and performer of contemporary music. She holds degrees from both the Eastman School and the Manhattan School of Music, where she specialized in contemporary performance practice. Mariel strives to make a career performing unconventional music in a wide range of unconventional venues, in hopes of illuminating exceptional new art to audiences of all different backgrounds.

Mariel is a performer of international reach who has played throughout the US and Europe in such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Lincoln Center in New York, Issue Project Room, Galapagos Art Space, the Tank, the Stone,  and various other galleries, warehouses, and non-traditional performance venues. She has appeared with SIGNAL Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, the NouveauClassical Project, Wordless Music Orchestra, TACTUS Ensemble, and has been featured on recordings of several different ensembles for Albany Records, New World Records, and New Amsterdam Records.  Recent appearances include playing as a featured member of the Eastman Broadband Ensemble, which has toured Mexico several times, visiting the Chihuahua International Festival, the International Cervantino Festival in Guanuajuato, and at the Silvestre Revueltas Theater in Mexico City.  Recently Mariel has appeared as a soloist on the newly formed Avant Music Festival, the Gerswhin Hotel's “Contagious Sounds” series, and with the Manhattan School's TACTUS ensemble at the Tank, and again as part of the Avant Music Festival at NYC's Wild Project.  Mariel has also played internationally in several festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemperain, the the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, and a Creative Dialogue for contemporary cello performance led by renowned performer Anssi Karttunen in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A dedicated advocate of contemporary music, Mariel has enthusiastically devoted her energy to championing the music of living composers, and has premiered numerous works by both young and seasoned composers. Mariel is in the process of working on her first album to be released, a CD of all newly commissioned works for solo cello by six innovative New York-based composers. In addition to her love of contemporary classical music, Mariel has also remained a committed student of ethnomusicology, and has played and performed with many diverse ensembles including Balinese Gamelan, Zimbabwean mbira ensemble, a Mariachi band, a Celtic Fiddle group, and several jazz groups.

http://www.marielroberts.com/

Martin Nordbeck (SE)

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http://soundcloud.com/nordbeck

Midaircondo feat. Michala Østergaard-Nielsen (SE/DK)

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Midaircondo are renowned for their extraordinary live performances of imaginative music fused with experimental visuals. Using highly diverse sound sources and a great deal of improvisation, they create dreamy and evocative soundscapes that leave no one untouched. Together with percussionist Michala Østergaard-Nielsen and three brass musicians (Niki Meinert Hansen, Kristoffer Bröte, Emil Strandberg) they present a new collaboration with visual design by Fubbi Karlsson.

A co-prouction by Malmö Symphonic Orchestra and Full Pull.

http://www.midaircondo.com
http://grid.fubbi.com/

Mika Vainio (FI)

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Mika Vainio (FI)
Mika Vainio, currently based in Berlin, is one half of the minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic from Finland, (the other half is Ilpo Väisänen). Before starting Pan Sonic in beginning of the 90's Mika Vainio has played electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene. His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their analogue warmth and electronic harshness. Be it abstract drone works or minimal avant techno, Vainio is always creating unique, physical sounds.

Vainio has released on labels like Touch, Wavetrap and Sähkö and he has been producing with Björk, Alan Vega of Suicide, Keiji Haino and Chicks on Speed.

Nadine Byrne (SE)

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Nadine Byrne is a visual artist and musician lving in Stockholm, Sweden. Her solo project, The Magic State, is an audiovisual ongoing process initiated in 2008. Every concert is a screening and every screening is a concert. The Magic State is sound and moving images, suspension of time, transcendence, mysticism, rituals and poetry. A magical state of mind and a physical sovereign place. Besides her solo projects she also form the duo Ectoplasm Girls with her sister Tanya.

http://www.nadinebyrne.com/

Tove Kjellmark (SE)

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What is distinctive in Tove Kjellmark's work is a faschination for behavior, dynamics and movement. This is an artist who creates work in a very spontaneous way using advanced technology, robotics and digital media as a tool for artistic expression. Kjellmark draws on psychoanalysis and neuroscience to explore people's relationship to that which is alien, or non-human, with focus on humans in relation to machines. Sculpture, photography and drawings in parallel all revolve around the question of how to represent vulnerable, mute, bodily states of being. An interactive toy is often the starting point in these artworks which Kjellmark cuts open, tears off the soft covering, makes strange, and controls with computer code. Sometimes she inverts the scale so that the interactive sculptures becomes menacing and monstrous giants, in other cases, she goes under the skin to uncover the psychological notions that problematizes the human. Tove articulates in a deeply perverse way essential questions about the contemporary human condition.

http://www.tovekjellmark.com/

Tristan Perich (US)

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Tristan Perich’s (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His latest circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony (Cantaloupe, 2010) has received critical acclaim, called “sublime” (New York Press), and the Wall Street Journal said “[its] oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth.” His prolific, award winning work coupling 1-bit electronics with traditional forms in both music (Active Field, Observations) and visual art (Machine Drawings, Interval Studies) have been presented around the world, from Sonar and Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum and bitforms gallery.

http://www.tristanperich.com